ice: make writes to /dev/gnssX synchronous
commit bf15bb38 upstream. The current ice driver's GNSS write implementation buffers writes and works through them asynchronously in a kthread. That's bad because: - The GNSS write_raw operation is supposed to be synchronous[1][2]. - There is no upper bound on the number of pending writes. Userspace can submit writes much faster than the driver can process, consuming unlimited amounts of kernel memory. A patch that's currently on review[3] ("[v3,net] ice: Write all GNSS buffers instead of first one") would add one more problem: - The possibility of waiting for a very long time to flush the write work when doing rmmod, softlockups. To fix these issues, simplify the implementation: Drop the buffering, the write_work, and make the writes synchronous. I tested this with gpsd and ubxtool. [1] https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-GNSS-Subsystem-Johan-Hovold-Hovold-Consulting-AB.pdf "User interface" slide. [2] A comment in drivers/gnss/core.c:gnss_write(): /* Ignoring O_NONBLOCK, write_raw() is synchronous. */ [3] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/intel-wired-lan/patch/20230217120541.16745-1-karol.kolacinski@intel.com/ Fixes: d6b98c8d ("ice: add write functionality for GNSS TTY") Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Tested-by: Sunitha Mekala <sunithax.d.mekala@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Liwei Song <liwei.song@windriver.com>
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